Jasmin.com
Goes For Over $310,000 To Give SnapNames Their Biggest Domain Sale
Ever

by Ron Jackson

Drop catching pioneer SnapNames.com
has had a lot of big sales since the company moved to an auction
format in 2004, but none as big the one they bagged this week. Jasmin.com
went for a whopping $310,250 to eclipse the previous all-time
leader at SnapNames, A1.com, a domain that sold for $260,250
in December. Jasmin.com also becomes the second highest domain sale
reported thus far in 2006, trailing only Macau.com, a name
that went for $550,000 earlier this month.

With Jasmin.com as their flag bearer, SnapNames put
together a phenomenal sales week, taking 12 of the 20 positions on
the Big Board, including five of the first seven. NameDrive.com
and KuwaitNET.net
were the only venues able to interrupt SnapName's streak at the top
of the chart. NameDrive did it with the week's second six-figure
sale, Amistad.com ("friendship" in Spanish) at $100,000.
The domain was sold in their new traffic based Park & Sell
aftermarket. KuwaitNet's big sale was 62.com at $30,000.
That ranked #4 on our new Top 20 and they placed another
numeric domain, 512.com, in a tie for the 8th position at $15,000.

Sedo.com
made their first official appearance at #8 with MrSite.com at
$15,000 but Sedo also had a six-figure sale we are aware of
that couldn't be released due to a non-disclosure agreement.

Afternic.com
was the only other venue with multiple entries on the leader board.
They scored with 267.com (#11 at $14,500) and a
nice 3-letter org, IRD.org (tied for 17th at $9,100).
The other non .coms on this week's list were #15 Scout.net
(sold for $10,250 at SnapNames) and #19 WeatherShop.co.uk
(sold for $8,768 at Sedo). Here's a look at the
complete Top 20 for the week ending Sunday, Feb 26:

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both.

Pool.com
had one of the week's 15 five-figure sales, mopping their brow with $14,750
from #10 Perspiration.com. SnapNames dominated both halves of
the chart and easily salted things away with seven of the last nine
entries on the list.

.Com Supporting Cast

As they do each week, SnapNames also piled up dozens
of additional solid four figure sales. KoreanFinance.com
fetched $7,500, GraniteHills.com carved out $6,843
and Tangram.com took in $6,600. CigaretteLighters.com
lit up $6,313 while BreastCancerResearch.com and Snippet.com
snatched $6,300 each.

Eastleigh.com added $5,220 while Drosophila.com
and OldMill.com ground out $5,100 apiece. SellingRealEstate.com
yielded $4,388, FortisAdvantage.com contributed $4,350
and Lovin.com attracted $4,095. SnapNames had another
three dozen .com sales ranging
from $2,000 to $3,900. You can check those out in the table below:

Additional SnapNames Sales
Between $2,000-$3,900

EllowPages.com

$3,900

BestHomeLoans.com

$2,722

Alberts.com

$3,522

GoMyAcces.com
(typo)

$2,655

Tatco.com

$3,224

Tharow.com

$2,609

Puppyland.com

$3,201

ScooterInsurance.com

$2,524

FiberglassSwimmingPools.com

$3,200

AntiqueRockingChair.com

$2,513

WaterjetCutter.com

$3,133

LowestCost.com

$2,461

CommitmentCeremony.com

$3,055

FotoStock.com

$2,314

RoyalCaribeanCruiseline.com

$3,000

HansenMedia.com

$2,301

MotorHomeInsurance.com

$3,000

Peles.com

$2,250

Karan.com

$3,000

KoreanTranslations.com

$2,250

Hopkinton.com

$2,988

LordOfWar.com

$2,200

VintagePorno.com

$2,950

CDPTraining.com

$2,150

UltrasoundPhotos.com

$2,948

MagneticEnergy.com

$2,127

VacationApartments.com

$2,905

Lambourgini.com

$2,051

FileCabnet.com
(typo)

$2,877

MountainGetaways.com

$2,050

VillasInItaly.com

$2,850

SneakerLane.com

$2,006

SqueakyWheel.com

$2,800

WomenCare.com

$2,000

EmbroideredJackets.com

$2,792

SanJivani.com

$2,000

Back at Pool.com, BuyBoxes.com booked $6,800,
Dongdat.com deposited $6,767 and EasyCreditRepair.com
returned $6,100. MayPay.com did pay $4,100, CanadianMilitary.com
marched off with $3,450, Canga.com commanded $2,222
and PortlandCars.com pulled in $2,049.

At Enom's Club
DropQRU.com sold for $3,700, wwebay.com
went for $2,100 and ShoeShack.com found a good fit at $1,800.
In a private sale Gupp.com (Hindi for "gossip")
changed hands for $2,000.

Global Contenders
(.biz, .info, .net & .org)

If you thought SnapNames was dominant on the main
chart, check out the new Global Contenders rankings.
SnapNames swept 17 of 20 positions on this week's list, including #1
with Scout.net at $10,250. Afternic and Pool were the
only other venues appearing in the GC spotlight, Afternic doing it
with #2 IRD.org at $9,450. Another .org, Allergies.org,
took the #3 slot at $7,544. After that it was nothing but .net
on the top half of the leader board.

There were 17 more four-figure sales in this category
over the last seven days. Eight of those were .orgs, five were
.nets, three were .infos and one was a .biz. The .nets included FTD.net
($1,500 at Enom's Club Drop) and four that found new owners
through SnapNames; Immortality.net ($1,350), BurglarAlarms.net
($1,259), ILB.net ($1,161) and Pharoah.net ($1,013).

The long list of strong .orgs all sold at SnapNames.
That group included JQF-Jerusalem.org at $1,400, EDIF.org
at $1,250 and Yonkers.org at $1,225. WeddingCakes.org
sliced off $1,206, SDH.org drew $1,103 and AlarmSystem.org
sounded a $1,050 alert. Another $1,024 went to Lina.org
and BetterCampaigns.org punched a $1,000 ballot.

Most of the week's best .infos changed hands at Sedo. Kupplungen.info
kicked in €1,249 ($1,490), Placement.info
provided €1,100 ($1,311), Thermal.info was hot at €1,000
($1,192) and Walk.info stepped out with €550 ($655).
Elsewhere, a superb 3-letter combo, CFI.info, sold for $975
at TheNameStore.com.

Back on the .biz front Daniel.biz brought €1,120
($1,335) and NJS.biz added $500 with both of those
selling at Sedo.

Country Codes

Great Britain's .co.uk took center stage on the
Country Code chart this week, claiming five of the first
seven entries including #1 WeatherShop.co.uk, sold at Sedo
for £5,000 ($8,768). Sedo wound up handling 8 of the 12
sales on the new ccTLD list with the other four deals being
done in private transactions. The .co.uk run continued with
#2 Prayer.co.uk at £4,300 ($7,540).

America's country code, .us, was right
on .co.uk's heels, racking up four charted sales, including #3 Classfieds.us
at $7,000. That domain was bought in a private
transaction by Ohio's Columbus
Web Solutions, Ltd. The other .us domains on this
week's list were all bought by Chris Zouzas in a private
deal. Zouzas added Revenue.us ($2,000), Project.us
($2,000) and Union.us ($1,200) to his already outstanding
.us portfolio (which includes America.us among others).

As the world's second most popular extension (behind
only .com), Germany's .de is usually expected to dominate
this list, but this week the best it could do was an 8th place
finish with Bedrucken.de("printing"
in German) at €2,600 ($3,101). Here's a look
at the complete Country Code chart for the week ending Feb.
26:

Austria scored this week with #4 Meinewerkstatt.at ("my
workshop" in German) at
€4,250 ($5,068). The only other country represented this time
out was the Cocos Keeling Islands with #12 Loan.cc at $940.
In another sale off the chart, Hi5.es (Spain's country
code) brought $900 at Afternic.

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past seven days, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year To Date
Charts page.

*****

As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies,
private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale
made through any channel. To contribute information and help make
this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.

We truly appreciate the industry leading
companies who share their sales information
with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current
domain values. Richard
Meyer of DotCom
Group, LLC
also provides invaluable help
in collecting data for these sales
reports each week.

Every Tuesday we publish the highest reported domain name
sales for the previous week. On Monday our contributors send us
their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that
information and write this report for Tuesday night publication to give
you the freshest sales report in the industry.

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.